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Pinheads

These are the fruiting bodies of Pinhead Slime Molds. They are neither plant, fungus nor animal. They are colonies of single celled organisms which behave much like a fungus. They can be very difficult to find but are visible with the naked eye. These were growing on the underside of a rotting Oak leaf.
I photographed them with a hypermacro lens in natural light, the yellow of the Oak leaf added warmth to the scene. For scale, each "pinhead" is about a single millimeter tall.